{"id":17297,"date":"2020-01-09T09:49:36","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T14:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=17297"},"modified":"2020-09-28T11:37:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T15:37:19","slug":"west-end-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/west-end-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"West End Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; width: 100%; height: 326px;\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?d=wg20_flipbook_for_issuu.com&amp;pageNumber=74&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Forty-six Western Prom is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Winterguide 2020<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">By Colin W. Sargent<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17342 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/WG20-hom-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"WG20 hom\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/WG20-hom-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/WG20-hom-200x120.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/WG20-hom.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>T<\/span><span class=\"s1\">here are a few nicknames for the tiny constellation of brick Queen Anne residences embracing each other below the Western Promenade. Our favorite? The Sisters. They face the Fore River. The most wondrous of the siblings is the John W. Burrows House at 46 Western Prom. Surprise\u2014as 2020 opens, this vision could be yours for $1.125M.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt hasn\u2019t been listed for sale for 40 years,\u201d says listing agent John Hatcher.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">This particular address has the finest view on the Prom. I\u2019ve envied this house\u2019s location for decades. For the longest time, I remember driving past and seeing a dreamy collie filling up a bay window, warming her bones. Lucky dog. She\u2019d locked down the best seat in the house. What would you name a wise dog like that?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Ground was broken to begin the Burrows House in 1901, according to Matthew David Deschaine in the <em>Landmarks Observer<\/em>. Deschaine praises its \u201cblend of Tudor Gothic, English Renaissance, and Flemish elements.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Regarding why these sweet Sisters are set below and to the south of the mansions of the Western Prom, Hatcher says, \u201cWhen William Vaughan lived on 387 Danforth Street, he owned 400 acres of what we think of as the Western Prom.\u201d Sugar merchant, refiner, and real-estate baron J.B. Brown (1805-1881), \u201cwho had a net worth of $5M during the Civil War, bought 300 of those acres. When Barrows wanted to buy some land to develop on the Prom, he approached the Brown heirs, who refused. But the City of Portland had a dumping ground at the location where the Sisters are today. You can imagine the trash being pushed down the slope of this hill toward the river. The Browns didn\u2019t own that!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Barrows won the day. The Sisters stand as a monument to courage and pluck in facing down a \u2018No thanks!\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cVictor Wright of The Heritage Co. put on a new slate roof 10 years ago,\u201d Hatcher says. The front door is tiger oak with leaded glass. Quarter-sawn oak floors, cove ceilings, lush built-ins, and original hardware excite, as well as the sight lines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Three stained-glass windows glow memorably in this tiny castle. Less materially, there\u2019s a feeling of dearness here. Immediately you sense the warm resonances of Forest City building at its peak. \u201cWhen you walk in, you can see the kitchen, the river\u2014you can see the whole house.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe sunrises here are unbelievably gorgeous,\u201d say the sellers, Tom and Carol Zack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">The contemporary eat-in kitchen has deftly executed cherry cabinetry by Cook &amp; Cook. The salon and dining room have cove ceilings and wood-burning fireplaces with original tiles. \u201cThe tiles were painted over black when we came in the house,\u201d Carol says. \u201cAfter we had them restored, they\u2019re a rich gold in the living room and pale green in the dining room.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">B<\/span><span class=\"s1\">ecause this house is built on a grand slope, sparkling river views are everywhere\u2014visitors will want to rush outside to experience the luxury of two south-facing demilune decks below a turret. On the ground floor, the family room with a craftsman interior and more cove ceilings trimmed in wood is an eye-popper. It\u2019s adjacent to a butler\u2019s pantry. A guess: This sumptuous hideaway may have functioned as a game room or pool room. It certainly could now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">There are four bedrooms on the second floor. I find myself wondering if the center bedroom at the top of the stairs\u2014used as the master by the Zacks\u2014could have been a library or smoking room. Not a bad place to toast Burrows\u2019s flair.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">There\u2019s off-street parking for two cars. A swimming pool by The Pool Shed makes the most of this .15-acre lot. \u201cI remember when the pool designer came to look at the site,\u201d Tom says. \u201cHe started to walk down that hill, slipped, and fell. He looked up at me and said, \u2018Nope.\u2019\u201d But he did put the pool in. \u201cWe also put in a weaving stone wall eight feet tall, two or three feet below a deck you don\u2019t see. Our kids loved the pool. We raised four kids in that house and had plenty of space.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Carol will miss both the house and \u201cmy perennial garden. Lilies, peonies, some Japanese lilacs, perennial geraniums, hosta. There\u2019s a magnolia that\u2019s doing very well. It\u2019s very private. The breeze off the Fore River in the summer is so refreshing and wonderful.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">As for the architect, \u201cEarle Shettleworth was lecturing at Waynflete and mentioned these houses,\u201d Tom says. \u201cHe said the architect was a mystery. If he doesn\u2019t know, nobody knows.\u201d Which sounds like an opportunity for the next generation of architectural sleuths.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">And the collie? \u201cHer name was Sage. She loved that statutory ledge below that big window, where she could soak up the sun.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">I almost jumped up there myself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Taxes are $10,739.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prom\u2019s castle on a hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[892,232,224],"tags":[697,700,701,698,699],"class_list":["post-17297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-estate","category-shelter-design","category-talking-walls","tag-john-hatcher","tag-john-w-burrows","tag-landmarks-observer","tag-the-sisters","tag-western-promenade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17297"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17344,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17297\/revisions\/17344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}